Poetry Quotes

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.